Often, clients who experience unwanted same-sex attraction or gender dysphoria feel hopeless about their struggles. Some are bombarded with the culture’s lies—“born gay, can’t change; it’s harmful to try to change; gay is good; dissent is bad; gender is...
Friday 9/15 4:15 – 5:30 PM
505 | Above the Sheets: Barriers to Sexual Intimacy Outside the Bedroom
When it comes to sexual intimacy, unexpected factors often get in the way of a healthy and fulfilling marital sex life. Many of those factors have to do with things outside of the act of sex. Licensed mental health practitioners and ministry leaders must thoroughly...
504 | Dialectical Behavioral Therapy to Treat Adolescents with Suicidal Ideation and Non-suicidal Self Injury
This presentation aims to educate licensed mental health professionals on how Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT) can be utilized to treat suicidal ideation and non-suicidal self-injury in adolescents. Current research findings on the use of DBT in treating suicidal...
503 | Growth After Loss: A Positive and Empowering Model to Facilitate Healing and Resilience in Treatment
Loss frequently catapults individuals into a negative space. In this workshop, licensed mental health professionals and ministry leaders will learn to utilize Switch Theory to empower clients to move toward a positive space using therapeutic activities. These...
502 | The Healing Church: What Churches Get Wrong about Pornography and How to Fix it
A hidden cycle traps Christian men and women in a repetitive course of porn use and private confession. The answers most ministry leaders offer fail to free the ensnared. It is not enough to say the local church has a hidden porn problem. Church leaders deserve a...